Owning an 86 in Alberta?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by daiheadjai

Something I highly-recommend if you do get the car (beyond getting good winter tires):
Whenever it snows, find an empty (curbless!) parking lot, turn off traction control, and have at it.
You'll learn a lot more about counter-steering, how the car behaves when steering or under heavy braking in low traction, all of which will help you when you're on the road.

Plus it's just damned good fun.

Just make bloody sure there are no curbs or big heavy chunks of wheel well ice frozen solid to the ground!

[daiheadjai]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Just make bloody sure there are no curbs or big heavy chunks of wheel well ice frozen solid to the ground!

Tis' merely a fleshwound...
Hopefully the snow is just enough to be fun, and not enough to be a bother for you (Toronto roads are clear already - God, I miss RWD in the winter)

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by daiheadjai

Tis' merely a fleshwound...
Hopefully the snow is just enough to be fun, and not enough to be a bother for you (Toronto roads are clear already - God, I miss RWD in the winter)

Been nasty here. The 401 has been a mess for three mornings in a row. Been bad enough I have been driving the company truck instead of my car. Not so much that I don't trust the car or myself but I am a tad leery about many of the other drivers on the road! Both yesterday and today I got to watch a semi jackknife about 10 cars ahead of me since they figure they can still manage 110 when everybody else is doing 80.

[daiheadjai]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Been nasty here. The 401 has been a mess for three mornings in a row. Been bad enough I have been driving the company truck instead of my car. Not so much that I don't trust the car or myself but I am a tad leery about many of the other drivers on the road! Both yesterday and today I got to watch a semi jackknife about 10 cars ahead of me since they figure they can still manage 110 when everybody else is doing 80.

Be safe!
I do think that a lot of people (myself included) have gotten worse at driving during the pandemic, possibly because we've gotten rusty what with all the stay-at-home orders. So it absolutely makes sense to be leery of what everyone else is doing!

[Gutterboy]

I'm in Calgary and before that was running my frs in regina. Biggest thing for moving to the bigger snow drops here was getting studded snow tires as then you grip like crazy.

I have a hill to climb coming out of my loop's approach but haven't had much problem as long as I have traction control and vsc off so I can spin right through as needed.

Had one time in Regina where she was real slippery when first learning the car and thought I better leave the controls on for added help on stability but when I started to slip on the snow it killed me dead and I sunk deep down in the snow whereas with controls off I could have pinned it right through the snow and made it. Lesson learned.

Completely right about not adding weight to the back which would throw existing weight balance off.

Also I wouldn't sweat picking up a slightly used 86 with low km and not from a dealer. I got mine with nothing done to it at 26km from a guy here in Calgary been absolutely great even with all the mods I've done. Still got lots more tuning to finesse this spring with latest changes I have done.

Also what's to hate on the new gen? I'm not much a fan of the wrx'ish taillights but I have a bit of hope on what could be different on the new 86 which hasn't released.

Scary high compression but jury isn't out yet on still boosting the new 2.4. Just don't know how far you can go though.

You have more power and stiffness out the gate on the newer gen release and more functional interior. Not all bad, and I have a feeling Toyota will make there's a little more edge to fill the role of the supra's little brother

[aa_chow]

From experience (completely stock with winter tires), ground clearance usually becomes an issue before grip does -- watch for snow ruts at intersections.